Senior Director Creative Strategy (Consumer Beauty)

Location: Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom; hybrid with up to 50% of working hours in the office and 50% remote

Company

A global beauty company with brands across fragrance, color cosmetics, skin care, and body care, selling products in more than 150 countries.

What you will do

• Lead creative strategy across the Consumer Beauty portfolio, including color cosmetics, personal care, nail, and mass fragrance.
• Develop disruptive creative strategies and concepts grounded in consumer insight and cultural trends.
• Partner with creative, brand, agency, third-party, and executive teams to generate and refine campaign ideas.
• Articulate, expand, and present creative stories with clear and strategically effective messaging.
• Develop innovative product claims and creative executions across traditional and contemporary channels.
• Build social-first brands in the Meta-led landscape, with strong awareness of TikTok and global beauty culture.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience as an agency or in-house brand creative strategist.
• Strong knowledge of UK, EU, US, and global mass consumer beauty, especially color cosmetics and fragrance.
• Demonstrated ability to write clear, provocative creative strategy, headlines, presentations, scripts, and campaign concepts.
• Consumer-first, digitally literate, culturally connected, and socially savvy approach.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaboration with multifunctional partners and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work autonomously under pressure in an agile, entrepreneurial, international business environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in an intense, agile, and entrepreneurial challenger-brand environment.
• High autonomy and a hands-on approach to creative development and execution.
• Collaborate with diverse teams passionate about developing ambitious beauty work.
• Flexible omni-working policy with a balanced office and remote arrangement.